Posted by Peter Ceresole on June 18, 2004 at 18:00:39 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Driving in NZ (was The Wade) posted by John Nichols on June 18, 2004 at 15:45:59:
I was amazed everybody was quiet and reading books. Is that normal for the tube?
Yes it is. It's the famous British reserve, and on the Tube in the rush hour it still works. Even when the people aren't British. It's contagious.
No- one helped of course.
That's the downside of the famous British reserve^H^H^H^H^H^Hsurliness.